Customer Success Manager

Digital Realty Austria GmbH; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision

401k match

Paid time off

Job summary

Digital Realty is seeking a Customer Success Manager to lead end-to-end delivery for strategic customers, coordinating across Operations, Implementation Services, Sales, Finance, and cross-functional teams in a non-commission role. The position emphasizes customer health, contractual commitments, issue resolution, and a seamless post-sales experience.

The role requires at least 5 years in customer-facing service, ITIL experience preferred, and willingness to travel up to ~20%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years in a customer-facing role within a service organization.
• Experience in service management and with international customers preferred.
• ITIL qualification preferred.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Ability to travel ~20%.

Responsibilities

• Own post-sales health across engagement, SLA, financial health, and product usage.
• Lead customer reviews and communicate changes.
• Track SLA performance and coordinate penalties and post-event communication.
• Partner with Implementation Services for post-sales onboarding.
• Document customer requirements in Playbooks.
• Identify at-risk renewals and coordinate actions.
• Coordinate post-RFS audits and follow-up with detractors.
• Manage service escalations and complaints end-to-end.
• Drive service improvements with cross-functional teams.
• Follow Quality, Environmental, and Health & Safety responsibilities.

Skills

Customer success

Cross-functional

Stakeholder management

ITIL experience

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

Your Role

As a Customer Success Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of operational service for assigned strategic customers, serving as a key customer-facing representative of Digital Realty. You will coordinate across Operations, Implementation Services, Sales, Finance, subregional and cross-functional teams to protect customer health, deliver against contractual commitments, resolve service issues, and create a seamless post-sales experience centered on customer success in this non-commission role.

What you’ll do

• Own overall post-sales customer health across client engagement, service management and SLA attainment, financial health including aged debt and churn risk, and product utilization and awareness.
• Lead regular customer service reviews, using reporting aligned with contractual requirements and Digital Realty standards, and communicate organizational, product, system, process, and policy changes.
• Track contractual SLA performance, review and validate potential service penalties, and coordinate customer communication during and after Red events so key internal and customer stakeholders remain appropriately informed.
• Partner with Implementation Services to support post-sales onboarding for new deployments and introduce customers to Digital Realty products and services.
• Document enhanced customer operational requirements in Customer Playbooks and ensure relevant internal teams understand and act on those requirements.
• Identify at-risk renewals and potential churn, and drive awareness and coordinated action across accountable internal functional teams.
• Coordinate post-RFS customer audits through successful completion and close the loop on customer listening posts and survey detractors with timely follow‑up.
• Manage service-related escalations and complaints from recording through escalation, resolution, and confidential handling.
• Identify and drive service improvements through accountable functional teams and process owners while contributing to the Operations Management Team and Global Customer Success community.
• Follow applicable Quality Management, Environmental, and Health and Safety responsibilities while modeling customer focus, teamwork, ownership, delivery, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant customer relationship experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a customer-facing role within a service organization, preferably in utilities, data centers, IT, or telecommunications.
• Experience in service management, ideally supporting complex or international customers; ITIL qualification and experience are preferred.
• Experienced-level product and technical knowledge, problem‑solving capability, cross‑functional collaboration, and stakeholder management appropriate for strategic, less‑complex customer accounts.
• Ability to work effectively with Operations, Implementation Services, Sales, Finance, segment teams, customers, and potential integrators in a matrixed environment.
• Working knowledge of Digital Realty products, services, value propositions, and mission‑critical infrastructure components, with the ability to build and maintain that knowledge.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including the ability to break complex issues into manageable components, identify underlying causes, and distinguish critical details from less relevant information.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal, listening, reporting, and organizational skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and sensitively across stakeholder levels.
• Ability to travel approximately 20% of the time.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range: $95,000 - $130,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a salary for this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.

NOTES

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.